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Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Spez could have swallowed his pride and like gig-economified (If that's not a word yet, I stake my claim lmao) mods, could have probably gotten away with paying pennies on the dollar with the right scheme (ala Amazon turk). I could see the headlines now "Reddit making waves PAYING moderators", "Make 500 bajilion Dollars JUST moderating for Reddit!" and people would have flocked to it lolol

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

The problem is that allowing mod discretion allows for marginalized people to participate in their own communities, and gig economy workers are, at best, only going to remove the most egregious harassment (I used to do something similar for another big social media site, it was an eye opening and horrifying experience - and I didn't even see the "call the cops" level shit).

I think you're right that the tech bros would love that move, though.